Wow, I'm first year aerospace and know a bunch of 24/25 year olds and they really haven't gone through the same. They all integrate and most of them are actually quite popular and get involved a lot. We don't see them as authority figures at all, they are definitely our peers.

The vetting process is done before they arrive and if it wasn't the university would have to offer them a place on another course.

The sources I can find on the same topic as this article are quite poor, the closest thing I can find from a reputable source is how UK universities don't want to sign off on Tier 1 visas for graduates out of the risk of losing their Tier 4 licence which allows them to accept international students.

Because they get a lot of benefits, like life long medical, paid vacation, tuition reimbursement, pension etc. They likely also receive a stipend for research and teaching or operating equipment that a company has sent up, and the pilots may also receive a salary from the air force.

I don't think they're defending him so much as mocking the BBC's business sense. While what Clarkson did was wrong, it was not wrong on the level that it would be a valid response for a company which is in trouble already to accept such significant loss of profit and brand name.

You do realise right next to it there are the statistics for sexual assault of which there are numbers, right? And have you considered that maybe Indian potential rapists aren't complete idiots and recognise that committing anything more than petty theft against a foreigner is generally a bad idea? A Roman citizen is safe anywhere kind of thing

It's more of a 'you give, then I give back' thing. In the west parents generally don't take care of their kids for as long, many will tell their children to start becoming dependent at 18 or even 16. Whereas in the east, parents will generally provide for their children for a bit longer. There's also elements of prosperity where in the west, the parents will generally be better off than the children and so more able to afford to take care of themselves where this isn't as much the case in the east and children tend to have greater incomes than their parents.

That $15k is only for tuition, including living expenses you're looking at closer to $25k per year for a UK/EU student attending uni within the UK. For international students on some courses in the UK (Oxbridge and some of the London unis), you'd be looking at upto $80k per year

Which is ironic because the stuff we get in the shops is much higher quality than what you get in America and a fairly good standard compared to the rest of Europe so your average household chef is gonna be able to cook up a better tasting meal. As for our restaurants, maybe we could do a little better but it's not like they're bad, if you think our food is bland you're just looking in the wrong place, e.g. not roasts or any of the food we stole and adapted from other countries or you've gone outside London.

Game development I guess, if they could be far ahead of their competition when it comes to adapting to VR it would be fairly profitable, especially if they could create a universal standard to use, like steam.

According to these benchmarks it's going to depend on the game. For some you might get slightly higher performance with 212001080@90Hz, for others it gives a couple fps lower than what you'd expect, taking into account the 60fps cap. So theoretically you won't need too much of a performance bump, if your card can manage 1440p which most can nowadays, it should be able to do it.

Probably not. I'd say there are 2 ways in which you can manage it term time, either you do a course where you have a lot of free days and can manage working a few weekdays or you find one of those rare jobs which will pay enough that you'll have to work just 2hrs/day or a Saturday. For second year it's a bit more realistic as you can apply to be a residential mentor and get most of your accommodation costs covered so your living costs end up being ~£3,000, might even end up being less when you come as there's calls to start paying them.

That's for an interstellar design however, so as you can see an awful lot of the design is radiation shielding and fuel. To get to Mars we need, as a very liberal estimate, 20km/s of delta-V, the design there wants 60,000km/s and also has to be designed to cope with erosion from years of near light travel. So in practice with a modified design for interplanetary travel we're talking 200-250m long and that's ignoring the fact that half of that delta-V is going to come from earlier stages and me massively simplifying resource use to the point where real use will be a fraction of that prediction. It'd still cost insane amounts but it's not a 700km ship.

Even if those R&D costs were in the billions or 10s of it would probably be worth it though. In the long run it would still reduce costs significantly as you'd be saving on mass or you could forego the 45 day estimate and transport the same amount in one mission as you normally would in several..